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Episode 63: Our Take on Landmark Papers Part I
In this week’s episode, we take a deeper look into Alex and Will’s research through two landmark papers in their field. Will pulls out a strip chart to teach us about how Neptune’s atmosphere looked in the 1960s (and why it’s still important today). Alex gives us a deeper look into explosive transients and presents a paper on supernovae from the early 1970s that reveals the power of fermi estimation and a little intuition. Meanwhile, Sabrina kicks off a conversation about the ethics of research and faces the reality of not being able to check every line of source code from the simulations she uses. See you next episode for Kiersten and Sabrina’s turn!
Link to sonification competititon: https://astrosoundbites.com/astrosoundbites-sonification-challenge-2022/
Papers:
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1969A%26A.....2..398K
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1973A%26A....29..393D
Space Sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3x0sBCQ_c8
Acoustic dispersion (and its connection to laser beams and FRBs):
https://www.npr.org/2016/12/21/506305383/why-does-a-frozen-lake-sound-like-a-star-wars-blaster
Link to Will’s research graphic: https://williamrsaunders.com/#occ-movie
In this week’s episode, we take a deeper look into Alex and Will’s research through two landmark papers in their field. Will pulls out a strip chart to teach us about how Neptune’s atmosphere looked in the 1960s (and why it’s still important today). Alex gives us a deeper look into explosive transients and presents a paper on supernovae from the early 1970s that reveals the power of fermi estimation and a little intuition. Meanwhile, Sabrina kicks off a conversation about the ethics of research and faces the reality of not being able to check every line of source code from the simulations she uses. See you next episode for Kiersten and Sabrina’s turn!
Link to sonification competititon: https://astrosoundbites.com/astrosoundbites-sonification-challenge-2022/
Papers:
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1969A%26A.....2..398K
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1973A%26A....29..393D
Space Sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3x0sBCQ_c8
Acoustic dispersion (and its connection to laser beams and FRBs):
https://www.npr.org/2016/12/21/506305383/why-does-a-frozen-lake-sound-like-a-star-wars-blaster
Link to Will’s research graphic: https://williamrsaunders.com/#occ-movie
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